I think the name of the show I saw is Real Life or True Life or something like that. But anyway, MTV is (in a sense) glorifying being "live-in parents". In one instance, this caucasian guy broke it off with his "live-in girlfriend" right after (I think they said 2 weeks or 2 months) after the baby was born. Then, when their lease was up, he went and got another apartment and INSISTED that she move in so the baby could be raised by both parents even though they weren't an item anymore.
DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THE PROBLEM HERE?
Yes, it is reality TV and it generates excellent ratings BUT how many girls feel like "well if the girl on TV did it, then it is OK for me to do it too"? How many guys feel like it gives them an extra ball......in their court good save...to get a girl pregnant, break up with her, but INSIST that she live with you so you can date who you wanna date and still "tap" her when nothing else is available.
How many more of our youth will have to grow up thinking that the only way to find love is to pull a Flavor-Flav/New York type thing where you bring 20 folks in your house, sleep with all of them at random, and hope to find true love by the next elimination?
Somebody has GOT to paint a positive (yet entertaining) picture of REAL LOVE THAT WORKS... THE WAY GOD INTENDED...REGARDLESS OF MTV AND VH1'S RATINGS!
Why do I feel like that person is me (this week)? I don't know.
God has already set the standard for marriage in his Word. When we look to TV and celebrities (Christian and non-Christian) for the standard, then we will find ourselves destined for disaster. For instance, many celbrity preachers marriages have ended in divorce. Non of them are taking responsibility for their actions. Non have admitted that they are sinning by going against God's standard. Thusly, we don't need to look at them, or use them as an excuse to get out of our marriages.
Celebrities of great influence like Halle Berry, Nicole Ritchie, etc. are having babies on their terms--not God's. They take no respinsibility for fornicating. And they really make it look like having babies is easy---they have money, nannies, opportunities. In the real world, a single mother struggles, because she has to do it all herself. She doesn't have the resources of the stars.
The only way that a positive picture can be painted is through education--God's way. Shacking is a perversion of God’s plan for the family. When people cohabitate, they are saying to God “my way is better.” You are basically telling God that He didn’t know what He was doing when He created the family.
Shacking also creates a false image…..the look of marriage when it ain’t a marriage. I'd rather have a real diamond than a fake diamond. A real diamond has value...a fake diamond is worthless. When you shake-uo, you are in fact flaunting something that is fake and worthless.
Often when people cohabitate with a false sense of hope—one day this person who has made numerous vain promises will suddenly change and make good on his word. WAKE UP! While you are waiting on him, several good mates passes you by.
That's what we need to teah the people watching the Tv shows---the UNREALITY of REALITY TV!
